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Originally Posted by Greg Reid
I had a little 4 speed LUV truck in the late 80's. The body was so rusty that about two feet of the rocker panel fell off one day when I shut the door. It was 'carved' out of Bondo over rusty sheetmetal. The brake lines even rusted and sprang leaks. As I recall though, the engine was Isuzu and I had no problem with the drivetrain. This would have been something like a '78 model or thereabouts..
No matter though... You are right about the Mitsubishi. We bought my wife a Mitsubishi powered Dodge Caravan. When it hit 100,000 miles it started smoking like a train. I used to see them all over and I could tell immediately which ones had the optional Mitsubishi engine. They all smoked.
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Originally Posted by b-man
The Chevy LUV was built by Isuzu, one of my friends had a 1976 and it was pretty much trouble free. I borrowed it for a road trip up to Washington state in 1983 to buy a 1956 VW panel bus and flat towed it home without any problems.
Mitsubishi was building the Dodge D-50 mini trucks, the Ford Courier was a Mazda.
The Datsun and Toyota mini trucks were all the rage back in the mid to late ‘70s, they sold like hotcakes back them. A lot of high school kids had them, they were more popular than muscle cars at the time. Partly because of the recent high gas prices and because they were so utilitarian.
Such a shame they’re not producing these great entry level mini trucks anymore.  |
You're right it was Isuzu, that's called poor recollection. I do know that every time I stopped by the truck garage they had the head off of one of those trucks. It was mid to late 70s and the bodies were just crap.
I could not tell you the last time I saw a LUV truck on the road in my neck of the woods, has to be decades ago. They're all gone full circle, and been turned back into tin cans again.